Attachment: Learning Theory
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- Created on: 12-05-16 16:59
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- Attachment: Learning Theory
- Behavioural
- all behaviour is learnt
- born blank slates
- learn through experiences
- Classical Conditioning
- Behavioural
- all behaviour is learnt
- born blank slates
- learn through experiences
- learning through association
- UCS - UCR NS - NR UCS + NS - UCR CS - CR
- food = UCS pleasure in child = UCR person feeding child = NS person feeding child then becomes CS and the pleasure of the child becomes CR
- Behavioural
- Operant conditioning
- positive reinforcement
- negative reinforcement
- primary reinforcer
- secondary reinforcer
- Dollard and Miller (1950)
- learning through reinforcement of behaviour
- crying = automatic response of hunger
- infant fed every time they cry, she learns that crying leads to food (rewarding). The infant will repeat this behaviour. Positive reinforcement
- primary reinforcer in this case is food
- infant fed every time they cry, she learns that crying leads to food (rewarding). The infant will repeat this behaviour. Positive reinforcement
- primary reinforcer in this case is food
- secondary reinforcer is the caregiver
- infant fed every time they cry, she learns that crying leads to food (rewarding). The infant will repeat this behaviour. Positive reinforcement
- infant fed every time they cry, she learns that crying leads to food (rewarding). The infant will repeat this behaviour. Positive reinforcement
- infant learns that crying will maintain CG's attention & food supply
- attachment behaviours such as separation distress are formed
- Evaluation
- Reductionist
- basic processes
- too simplistic to explain complex attachment behaviours
- basic processes
- Counter evidence
- animal studies shown animals don't necessarily attach to those who feed it.
- Lorenz's geese imprinted before fed- maintained attachments regardlessof who fed them
- Harlow's monkey study showed monkeys preferred comfort monkey who gave no food.
- animal studies shown animals don't necessarily attach to those who feed it.
- Ignores other factors
- ignores reciprocity,interactional synchrony & other factors associated with forming attachments
- Ainsworth shows that the sensitivity of CG is important & quality of attachment is linked to developing reciprocity& interactional synchrony
- if attachment was just about food- would be no need for complex interactions
- Reductionist
- Behavioural
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